Study Plan
Study Plan
As an Indonesian student who study aboard, I will participate actively in Indonesian Students
Association (PPI). The advantage of joining such an organization is to gain up-to-date
information regarding administration as a foreign student, learn how to adapt with local
inhabitants, and get emergency assistance. Besides, gathering with other Indonesian students
abroad will promote awareness of solidarity, respect, and tolerance. Therefore, we will cooperate
and help each other when needed.
While studying overseas, I will also join Muslim community since I want to interact with them
and know the feeling as a minority society; I will learn how they adapt with non-Muslim
majority country, and how the majority religion treats them. This kind of interaction will be
beneficial broaden relationship and network with other Muslims abroad.
Further, My Ph.D. research proposal topic is “Critical and Creative Responses of Islamic
Affiliated University Students in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on Intercultural and Interreligious
Issues at English Class”. The results of this research topic possess potential as a course design
model for intercultural communication classes offered by the English education department at
Islamic-affiliated universities because, through the research topic, I will identify instructional
material, classroom interactions, and learning activities which involve higher-order thinking
skills in term of intercultural and interreligious issues.
Task Time
Then in the term of data collection, the data for the research will be obtained from students’
responses when dealing with English reading passages addressing intercultural and interreligious
issues. The students will read the passage and respond in the reading phases: pre-reading, while-
reading, and post-reading. I will use some reading comprehension questions; I will also use
higher order questions to explore students’ critical and creative responses to intercultural and
interreligious issues discussed in the passage.
Next, I will choose the Islamic affiliated university in West Kalimantan since the people there
once experienced ethnic and interreligious conflicts. There are three Islamic affiliated
universities in Pontianak: Institut Agama Islam Negeri Pontianak (IAIN Pontianak), Sekolah
Tinggi Ilmu Syariah (STIS) Syarif Abdurrahman Al-Kadrie, and Universitas Muhammadiyah
Pontianak (UMP). And the students of these universities, especially those who take English
classes, will be the subjects of the research.
Then, after finishing my Ph.D. degree I will immediately go back to Pontianak, West
Kalimantan, Indonesia. I will teach cross cultural understanding class at English study program,
IAIN Pontianak. I will also postulate the importance of intercultural and interreligious tolerance
to my students, and I will conduct further research on intercultural and interreligious us
education especially related to English language teaching.
Meanwhile, the reading material will be authentic internet material discussing intercultural
and interreligious issues. To find reading material that fits students’ reading abilities, I will
administer an online readability test.